Dose of deception: Delhi cops bust fake life-saving drugs racket; 1.1L counterfeit tablets and capsules seized; 2 illegal factories sealed
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police's crime branch on Wednesday claimed to have busted a spurious drugs racket with the recovery of a massive cache of fake life-saving medicines. Six people, including the alleged kingpin, have been arrested.
The haul includes over 1.1 lakh counterfeit tablets and capsules, with an estimated market value running into several crores. Packaging machinery and raw materials from two illegal factories in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh have also been seized.
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Joint commissioner of police (crime) Surender Kumar formed a team under the supervision of DCP (crime) Harsh Indora to act on an intelligence about a consignment of counterfeit medicines entering Delhi.
Three teams, headed by inspector Pawan Kumar, carried out the operation under the supervision of ACP Bhagwati Prasad.
"According to the input received, fake medicines of reputed pharmaceutical companies were being brought into the national capital. Coordination was established with technical experts from the firms concerned to verify the authenticity of the products on the spot. Following systematic surveillance, police laid a trap at HP CNG petrol pump, Sham Nath Marg, Civil Lines, on July 30," said DCP Indora.
A car was intercepted, and two Moradabad residents, Mohammad Alam (35) and his elder brother Mohammad Saleem (42), were caught with counterfeit medicines, said police. Company representatives confirmed discrepancies in packaging and stamping and lab reports later declared the products fake.
"Subsequent interrogation and follow-up raids exposed an extensive interstate network with links to Moradabad, Deoria and Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh; Panipat and Jind in Haryana; and Baddi and Solan in Himachal Pradesh," DCP Indora said.
Police said the syndicate used encrypted apps, fictitious accounts and hawala channels for communication and payments. Cops seized more than 1 lakh counterfeit tablets and capsules of various life-saving drugs, 74 boxes of steroid injections, 1,166 tubes of skin ointment, about 150kg loose tablets, 20kg loose capsules, a heavy-duty medicine packing machine, 10 foil rolls and large quantities of blank boxes of multiple brands from two factories in Jind and Solan's Parwanoo.
Apart from Alam and Saleem, the others arrested include alleged mastermind Rajesh Mishra (52) from Gorakhpur, Mohammad Zuvaier (29) from Moradabad, Prem Shankar Prajapati (25) from Deoria and Parmanand (50) from Jind.
According to police, Zuvaier was the key supplier and a mid-level distributor while Prajapati acted as an intermediary, moving consignments from manufacturing units to local handlers. Mishra allegedly orchestrated the entire racket, from sourcing packaging material to overseeing production and payments through benami accounts. Parmanand owned and operated 'Laxmi Maa Pharma,' where large-scale manufacturing of counterfeit medicines took place without a valid licence, said police.
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